#The frogs are gay series

The heaviest validation for the fondness for frogs, however, may also come from the famous children’s book series Frog and Toad. The heavy presence of queer frog owners is especially notable in platforms like Tiktok and Instagram, where many share images and videos of their frogs doing cute stuff and drawings of frogs with different pride flags.

With this appealing to the trans community, the purchases and adoptions of frogs increased heavily over the years. The chemicals that Jones referred to were pesticides and herbicides with synthetic estrogens that triggered a mechanism in male frogs to turn into female frogs, but further research has suggested that this is a natural phenomenon in the species. His insistence for frogs being part of the alt-right aside, many in the queer community began to look into frogs afterwards, and rushing into a niche culture of frog owning. Many recall the jokes surrounding Alex Jones’ tirade on “the chemicals in the water that turn the frickin’ frogs gay,” and this may just be one of the most notable earlier connections between frogs and the LGBTQIA+ in popular media. There are grounds for this with a deeper look into the biology of frogs and their history in the media, along with other representations used in the past. There is a rising trend in the queer community where owning a frog or representations of frogs is considered an indicator of queerness, and are sometimes even called the “choice pet” and “mascot” of the LGBTQIA+ community.

The frogs are gay